Github sponsors

Hi! My name is Zack.

My interests are Automation, Transfering Data, Golang, Writing, Music, and Food.

Along these interests I've created many different open-source MIT-licensed projects.

These projects have served my own interests, and, through Github, I've learned that they serve other people's interests as well. As part of that, I've been increasingly asked to improve my projects which I'm totally happy to do (I love helping people!).

Your support will improve all of the projects I work on.

There are two ways to support me: monetarily or through simple gestures of gratitude.

Monetary support

My projects have been adopted by the community and keeping them up-to-date and supporting the community requires resources. What resources, you might ask? It turns out that some issues that are raised in my projects require a lot of time or physical resources to fix. For instance, several people asked for IPv6 support in one of my projects. Since I don't own any IPv6 compatible systems, I'd need to rent servers with IPv6 support so I can troubleshoot their issues. In another instance, I need to rent server time to cover the bandwidth that people use with my file-transfer utilities. And so on.

Support through gratitude

If you can't sponsor me, I totally understand. I would still love to hear your support via email ([email protected]) or Twitter (@yakczar) or whichever way you want. It may not seem like a lot, but to me it means a great deal.

Your support, through monetary means, or through gracious means, are both extremely helpful to me to keep me motivated to improve upon these heavily used software.

A selection of projects that you will support

Here is a sample of the hundreds of projects I've been working on for the past 10 years. There are many more, but I hit the character limit :|

Automation

• find3: High-precision indoor positioning framework, my most passionate project.
• howmanypeoplearearound: A simple version of FIND, which can be used to just detect people nearby.
• raspberry-pi-turnkey: Instructions to make a Raspberry Pi image that can be deployed anywhere and assigned to a WiFi network without SSH

Transfering data

• croc: A CLI tool to transfer files securely and quickly, using a relay.
• duct: A server that allows duct-taping different processes
• hostyoself: A somewhat cheeky server that allows you to selfhost.

Golang

• peerdiscovery: Pure-go library for cross-platform thread-safe local peer discovery using UDP multicast.
• pluck: Similar to regex but more intuitive.
• progressbar: A very simple thread-safe progress bar which should work on every OS without problems.
• pake: This is a PAKE library for generating a strong secret between parties over an insecure channel.
• sqlite3dump: This is a Golang port of Python’s sqlite3 .iterdump() command.

Writing

• rwtxt: A cms for absolute minimalists.
• cowyo: A feature-rich wiki webserver for minimalists.
• offlinenotepad: An offline-friendly notepad
• quotation-explorer: Explore and search over 120,000 quotations, with the click of a mouse.
• poetry-generator: A backus-naur poetry generator that was featured in The Kindergarten Teacher.

Music

• piano: A simple, cross-platform pluggable midi piano controller, friendly with Windows.
• PIanoAI: Reatliem piano learning and accompainment from a Raspberry Pi. Previous iteration was from pyplayerpiano.
• playlistfromsong: Create an offline playlist from a single song (using recommendations from Youtube/Last.fm).
• musicsaur: Music synchronization via the browser. Not working on much anymore.

Food

• ingredients: Universal culinary recipe extractor and analyzer.
• meanrecipe: create recipes using machine learning.
• recursive-recipes: Visualize recipes recursively